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Feb 07, 2021 100 Fairings Category: Empennage
For the fairings I purchased:

Epoxy (west systems)
Pro Filler
Bidirectional cloth
Spreaders
Micro bubbles
Dispensers

I also purchased for fasteners the 2 lug and 1 lug nutplates for the #04 screws. Aircraft spruce did not have these so I found them at Spencer Aircraft. I also got soft rivets for attaching the nutplates to the fairings.

There's quite a bit of work to get the fairings to be perfect. Both of my elevator fairings were dented and I had to repair them, Van's didn't even respond to my request for new ones. In the end it was just a little bit of filler and all is nice and smooth.

When I started it was very cold so I used a fast hardner, but then the temperature rose and I quickly learned to use the slow hardner.

Fur cutting the glass I used the dremmel and for sanding I have found that 60 grit 3M paper followed by 120 and then 400 for finish works extremely well.

Learning a lot about fiberglass and enjoying every second of it.


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